Receptacle for burning refuse.



UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT XV. COX, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONF-HALE TO DAVIS M. LELAND, OE SAME PLACE.

RECEPTACLE FOR BURNING REFUSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,593, dated February 13, 1900.

Application led February 25, 1899. Serial No. 706,834. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT W. COX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Receptacles for Burning Refuse, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to receptacles for burning refuse; and it consists in certain details of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described in the specification, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claims. Its object is to provide a portable device for safely confining and cremating light trashy refuse, suc-h as paper, leaves, shavings, and the like which accumulate about house-lawns, streets, offices, stores, and alleys, and which when burned in the open air is liable to be blown about and scattered by the wind, thus endangering surrounding or adjacent property.

It consists in a corrugated iron body of s uit-v able size, preferably cylindrical in form, provided with a bottom of suitable diameter to t within tlie inner projections of the corrugations and secured thereto by bolts or rivets, leaving openings between the bottom and walls of the cylinder within the corrugations; also, openings may be provided for the admission of air in each corrugation and above the bottom near the base of the cylinder. These corrugations, in connection with the openings, afford draft-dues and prevent the walls from becoming unduly heated, as would be the case in a plain surface. A surrounding jacket or covering incloses the cylinder, which jacket is secured by rivets to the outward projections or angles of the corrugations and is provided with feet or openings at its base, whereby air may be admitted beneath the bottom or door of the burner, the bottom being situated a suitable distance above the base of the jacket.

In the drawings which fully illustrate the invention, Figure I is a perspective viewof my device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view.

Referring more speciiically to the drawings by number, l is the interior corrugated cylinder, provided with the bottom 2.

3 is an outer closure or jacket surrounding the cylinder 1.

5 represents openings at or near the base of the exterior jacket for the admission of air beneath the bottom.

6 are handles by which the device may be conveniently moved.

The interior corrugations prevent the refuse to be burned from packing closely against the sides, and each affords an air channel or flue for accelerating the combustion of the material to be consumed, also for the upward passage of air-currentsl between said cylinder and the surrounding jacket, and prevents undue heating and burning out of said cylinder. I also may provide the iiuted or corrugated walls of the cylinder 1 with a series of lateral draft or air openings 7, arranged rin a plane above the bottom2 and communicating with the lire-chamber to promote combustion, and therefore increase the burning capacity of the device, and thus more readily and quickly dispose of the refuse.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claimtherein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A portable refuse-burner consisting of a corrugated or luted cylinder, having a bottom arranged therein at its base, said vcylinder adapted to form a series of draft-passages at the edge of said bottom and having an additional series of lateral draft-openings therein,

arranged a suitable distance above said bottoni,and a jacket or casing inclosing said cylinder or iire-pot and having a series of air-inlets in its bottom edge, substantially as specified.

2. A portable refuse-burner, comprising a corrugated or iluted cylinder or ire-pot, and an imperforate bottom arranged therein, vnear the base, with its edges touching, or in contact with, the inner, or rentrant, angles of said iluted or corrugated cylinder, substan tially as set forth.

3. A portable refuse-burner, comprising a corrugated or fluted cylinder or fire-pot, an imperforate bottom arranged therein a short distance above the base, said cylinder having above the base, and a jacket inclosing said a series of lateral draft-openings arranged a short distance above said bottom, and in communication with the eombustionchamber, substantially as set forth.

4. A portable refuse-burner, comprising a corrugated or fluted cylinder, an imperforate bottom arranged therein a short distance cylinder, substantially as set forth. 1o

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ALBERT XV. COX. \Vitnesses:

DAVIS M. LELAND, H. L. COOPER. 

